Monitor Calibration

#1 Willaim C. Bert

Mine is set at 6500K only because last year a spent to money on a Calibration software to calibrate my monitor, scanner and printer. I was in color management hell when it came to printing my photos on my S9000 printer.

Bill

10:14 pm - Monday, July 28, 2003

#2 Herman

My monitor is set to 6500K, the most common used color temperature. I'm going to buy a hardware calibrator to better judge the colors of my photos. More info on color management: http://www.colorvision.ch/ (commercial)

12:05 am - Tuesday, July 29, 2003

#3 Mark Goldstein

To be honest I know next to nothing about colour management and find the whole thing more than a little confusing. I need to do some research Thanks for the link Herman.

What's the S9000 printer like Bill? I'm toying with the idea of buying an A3 printer and am considering either the Canon i9100 or the Epson 2100.

Mark

12:22 am - Tuesday, July 29, 2003

#4 Willaim C. Bert

The printer is fast and the photos do have the wow factor. The smallest size I print is letter and largest is 13x19. I had trouble finding the right third party paper since Canon's PPP is to expensive to use. I now use Ilford's Classic Gloss and Pearl. I would like to try third party inks to reduce the cost of printing down further, but I still have more research on that. I bought my S9000 last year in May because at that time they were the only large printer with individual inks. I think this will be my last Canon printer because Canon is not releasing printers that are better than the last printer with longevity of the prints. Longevity is important because I give my photos away. Also if you look into third party papers and inks you will find many of the manufactures support Epson printers and hardly anyone supports Canon. Next year I will probably buy Epson 2200 printer.

Bill

6:29 pm - Tuesday, July 29, 2003

#5 Mark Goldstein

"I would like to try third party inks"
Don't do it! See my comments here:

http://www.photographyblog.com/forum/threads.php?id=540_0_6_0_C

I use Ilford Galerie Smooth Pearl Paper on my Epson Stylus 890 - it's excellent!

Have you experienced any fading issues at all with the S9000?

Mark

6:46 pm - Tuesday, July 29, 2003

#6 Willaim C. Bert

In my office I have some of un-framed photos are under floresent light five days a week maybe 15 hours a day, the photos printed 6 or 7 months ago, no fading issues yet. But reading this, I makes me wonder should I print them again compared the photos: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1003&message=5600624

For fading with certain papers I use this is website: http://www.livick.com/method/inkjet/pg1.htm

6:30 pm - Wednesday, July 30, 2003

#7 Willaim C. Bert

Mark

I just read this on FM and I would wait on getting any printer now after reading this
http://www.photo-i.co.uk/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.pl?s=3f277e9c5fd1ffff;act=ST;f=35;t=67


Vincent. has been posting good technical information on printers for sometime.

Bill

6:49 pm - Wednesday, July 30, 2003

#8 Mark Goldstein

I may hold off until Photo-i spills the beans and tells us what's going on!

The fading looks pretty bad on that DPReview image. Hmmmm....

Mark

10:52 pm - Wednesday, July 30, 2003

#9 Nigel

I use Colorvision's Spyder and Optical software to calibrate my Sony GDM-FW900 monitor and it has made a huge difference.

7:41 am - Thursday, July 31, 2003

#10 Mark Goldstein

Hi Nigel,

Where did you buy the Spyder from and how much did it cost?

Do you sell your work, or just take photos for your own use?

Mark

12:46 pm - Thursday, July 31, 2003

#11 Mark Goldstein

Geoff White emailed this to me today:

The majority of monitors on the market are shipped set to ~ 9300K, but yes, you do want to have your own monitor set to 6500K to get a properly colour managed setup. When publishing images to the web you’ll want to convert them to the sRGB colour space (known in the photography industry as ‘shitty-RGB’) to have them appear correctly on the general public’s monitors. The sRGB colour space basically has a reduced-gamut to match most people’s monitors.

Here are some websites you might find useful:

http://digitaldog.imagingrevue.com/

http://www.imagingrevue.com/

10:11 pm - Thursday, July 31, 2003

#12 Mark Goldstein

Here's an email that I received from Suzanne Williams which may prove helpful to everyone:

"Read your article. I use the following webpage: http://www.photoscientia.co.uk/Gamma.htm to set my monitor. I discovered years ago that my monitor's default settings are extremely dark. Found the above webpage through another webpage on the subject: http://www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints1A.html."

3:44 pm - Tuesday, August 5, 2003

#13 mario

daylight is 5500K not 6500K, setting your monitor to a bluer temperature will give you red casts in your work

2:11 pm - Monday, December 13, 2004